{"id":22042,"date":"2016-02-12T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/curious-ai-wants-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:56:43","slug":"curious-ai-wants-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/curious-ai-wants-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality","title":{"rendered":"Curious AI Wants To Make The Singularity A Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/curious-ai-wants-to-make-the-singularity-a-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few years tech companies both large and small have developed programs that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/googles-dream-robot-is-running-wild-across-the-internet-1715839224\">can \u201cdream\u201d<\/a>; and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21669609-watson-ibms-attempt-crack-market-artificial-intelligence-starting\">understand and process information<\/a>; and even <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2015\/jun\/28\/computer-writing-journalism-artificial-intelligence\">write articles<\/a>; but nothing has come close to the holy grail of artificial intelligence \u2014 developing software that can learn independently.<\/p>\n<p>At least, not until now.<\/p>\n<p>Helsinki might seem like an unlikely potential birthplace for this new era of intelligent machines. Yet it\u2019s there \u2014 on a side street blocks from the central train station \u2014 that a team of roboticists, neuroscientists, and graphics programmers planted the seed that would become the new artificial intelligence software developer, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecuriousaicompany.com\/\">The Curious AI Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/10\/02\/do-androids-dream-of-curious\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years tech companies both large and small have developed programs that can \u201cdream\u201d; and understand and process information; and even write articles; but nothing has come close to the holy grail of artificial intelligence \u2014 developing software that can learn independently. At least, not until now. Helsinki might seem like an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,64,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62900,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22042\/revisions\/62900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}